From the author of the international bestseller The Apollo Murders and The Defector: an edge-of-the seat Cold War thriller, set against the backdrop of the real 1970s "space race" between the US, USSR, and China...
1975. A new Apollo mission launches into orbit, on course to dock with a Russian Soyuz craft: three NASA astronauts and three cosmonauts, joining to celebrate a new dawn of Soviet-American cooperation.
But a third power is rising, in the race to dominate space. As NASA Flight Controller Kaz Zemeckis listens in from Earth, three of the six astronauts are killed in a depressurization accident. And from a remote location in east Asia, a capsule secretly launches with China's very first astronaut aboard, purpose unknown...
Full of Cold War intrigue and real historical characters, "Final Orbit" accelerates to a thrilling conclusion – and brings to life the loneliness, majesty and pure rush of space flight, with all of the hard-won experience of a writer who is himself one of the most decorated astronauts alive.
posted 03-20-2025 08:10 PM
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